Transnational tortillas
Subtitle: race, gender, and shop-floor politics in Mexico and the United States
By: Carolina Bank Muñoz.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780801446498; 9780801474224
Subjects: Tortilla industry -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula); Tortilla industry -- California; Factory system -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula); Factory system -- California; Industrial relations -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula); Industrial relations -- California; Women -- Employment -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula); Alien labor, Mexican -- California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The tortilla behemoth and global production; title: The political economy of corn and tortillas; title: A tale of two countries : immigration policy and globalization in the United States and Mexico; title: Hacienda CA : immigration regime; title: Hacienda BC : gender regime; title: Fighting back? : resistance in the age of neoliberalism; title: Shop-floor politics in the twenty-first century.